Some very clever people near Edinburgh have managed to stop pigs succumbing to a respiratory illness.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph today, the science author Matt Ridley draws our attention to the Roslin Institute in Scotland, which has succeeded in removing a tiny segment of DNA from the genome of pigs. The effect is to make the porkers completely resistant to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome.
But, as Matt Ridley explains, it’s a rare example of British expertise being allowed to exploit a huge commercial and scientific opportunity. An opportunity made possible by a technique called CRISPR – Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.
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